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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: Use request_firmware()
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:11:25 -0700
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On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:14 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> Michael Chan wrote:
> > May be I'll break up each firmware section into a
> > different file and the file name will be updated with each version.
> > This will allow different sections to be updated separately and older
> > kernels will still have access to the older firmware.
> 
> Is that really necessary?  It is enough "fun" finding just the one firmware file 
> as it is.

If all the firmware sections are in the same file, much of the firmware
file will be duplicated in a new file when we update just one section.